Respondents | Responses |
R1 | Lack of knowledge on assessment of learning and the validation of the competences possessed. |
R2 | Lack of understanding what RPL is about and negative preconceived ideas about RPL. |
R3 | Lack of trained manpower to handle the RPL process. |
R4 | Resistance from Faculties, academics that may not be fully aware of why RPL is important. |
R5 | Lack of trained people such as assessors, implementers. |
R6 | Lack of knowledge in assessing portfolios at Department level. |
R7 | Difficulties to fit RPL into Faculty programmes. |
R8 | Lack of experience in dealing with RPL, availability of resources both human and financial, candidates not knowing how to compile a portfolio, and assessing the portfolios. |
R9 | Overflow of applicants might overwhelm the institution, difficulty in selecting relevant students, inability to recognise informal knowledge, inability to identify the required knowledge?what constitutes the knowledge that deserves recognition? |
R10 | Integrating the mature students with graduates of Grade 12, comparability of experience against Grade 12. How can knowledge from Shoprite be compared against knowledge from NAMDEB. |
R11 | Lack of awareness. |
R12 | Lack of knowledge on how to assess RPL. |